Thanks OP, our resident UK press aficionado. Nobody but nobody covers government sex scandals like the UK press.

Some articles are implying he will no longer have to testify. Why is that the case?

Why? No one else has to leave a post for sexual activities. Barney Frank, Bill Clinton......

Wow, reporters are certainly having no problem finding out all the details of this top secret investigation into a top secret life. I would guess the White House is making all this information easily available, in order to slime and damage Gen. Petraeus and make sure he can´t testify-- he´d be an easy target to ridicule by the dems. Hopefully, Gen. Petraeus will find a way to get the info out on what happened in Libya. And I´m sure it won´t be pretty for Obama. I hope, anyway.

I really think that Petraeus is a small piece of a much larger plan.

Obama´s end game is to destroy Israel - through the muslims. Obama can only do this if he destroys our military. Destroying our military requires a two-pronged attack, defunding (destroy US economy and force us to cut military funding) and weak military leaders (get rid of Petraeus, etc.)

Mission accomplished, obama can dump in one of his minions to head the CIA.
No need to prosecute Broadwell and drag it out.

The information on the general and his biographer is readily available on line. Look at the pictures in the article, they say Facebook and Google.

The following is a December 2011 Mail report on the biography and seems to offer some clues about what is happening today:

"General Petraeus nearly resigned over Afghanistan draw down but decided to ´salute and carry on´, claims new biography"

http://tinyurl.com/b497xom

After reading about this in numerous stories I strongly doubt he was "forced" to resin. But the whole deal is none of my business. They are both accomplished, driven adults. But they´re also still human. Rather than a scandal, it seems a sad thing to me.

For anyone who says "Poor Petraeus. This was only an affair" you are dead wrong. The potential for blackmail of our highest national security officer is not a small thing. He violated the Agency´s own standards for every employee and does not deserve pity or anyone defending him. Is it too much to ask that some people should be held to higher standards for security of 350,000,000 Americans? It wasn´t a mistake. It went on for perhaps a year or more and he wrote thousands of emails over the last few months. Sounds like a man with serious issues, distracted from the most important job in the world. Hall him in. Get the truth. And prosecute if need be. This administration needs to be held accountable for perhaps the greatest most dangerous coverup in our history. Obama, Biden, Holder, Mueller, Clinton for starters. Get rid of them all. Preferably behind bars.

Former UN Ambassador John Bolton said yesterday that Gen. Petraeus CAN be called in to testify, and he can also be subpoenaed, if necessary.

This skank hacked into his email and THEN began an affair with him? Well howdy do, General. I wish he would´ve kept it in his pants. I know it´s none of our business but it just goes to show you how the mighty can fall.

So, petraeus ended the affair BEFORE he became cia director?
And our fbi just disclosed this?
And our potus allowed a man with compromised ethics (snicker)and vulnerability to be blackmailed (again, snicker)to head our cia?
Does this not stretch to breaking point, credulity?

Funny how a President can cheat on his wife, and stay in office, but a cabinet member not.

I see no reason why this should affect whether he is compelled to testify or not. Not that it matters, like everything else connected to Obama the hearings will come to nothing.

It´s amazing to me how everyone else´s secrets are easy to uncover, but all of Obama´s apparently remain buried at the bottom of the ocean.